Finals of the SciTechBiz quiz conducted by Ninaad Rajeev and Sharan Sheshadri on 17/1/2017

1. ROUND 1: Dries
Infinite Bounce, Pounce
+10/-10 on the pounce
+10 on the bounce

2. Q1) What can you buy in this building ?

3. Snapchat Spectacles

4. Q2) Why is that briefcase important? Or,
what’s inside?

5. Contains ballots for the Oscars. Nicknamed
the “Ballot Briefcase”

6. Q3)
• After Verizon bought over Yahoo’s core internet business, Yahoo’s
remaining assets include its stake in Yahoo Japan and its 15% stake in
X (a company).
• Drawing inspiration from X’s name, Yahoo will now be renamed as Y.
•
• Give me the company X, and the new name Y for the Yahoo
Corporation

7. X- Alibaba
Y- Altaba (Alternative+Alibaba)

8. Q4)
• Fikr Wa Talash – Afghanistan
• Lion’s Den – Croatia/Germany
• Dragon’s Den – UK/China/South Africa
• Your Opportunity – Spain
• Kapital – Russia
• ___________ - USA

9. Shark Tank

10. Q5)
• “I had the dates on the visa. On the Indian visa, they go the opposite
direction. If they were in the US, so November 12 would be 11/12 in
the US and 12/11 here (in India). There was a misunderstanding and I
flew from Beijing into Delhi without a visa and it was a scary
situation”
• X said this in a recent interview.
• The embarrassing situation was avoided when Amitabh Kant, the CEO
of NITI Ayog interfered, and X was finally allowed into India.
• ID X

11. Travis Kalanick (CEO of Uber)

12. Q6)
• While working in the Royal Observatory in Paris in 1667, Danish
astronomer Ole Rømer made a major discovery. His theory built on
earlier ideas by Galileo, and the observance of how the timings
between Jupiter’s moon eclipses changed depending on its distance
from the Earth. His theories gained support from other great scientific
minds of the time, including Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley.
•
• The recent google doodle celebrated the determination of something.
What? (GIF on next slide)

14. Anniversary of the determination of the speed of light

15. Round 2: Long Connect
NON EXHAUSTIVE

16. Q1) +100/-50

17. SAFETY SLIDE

18. Koala

19. Q2) +80/-40
• In literature and legend, the X is associated with fire, being
supposedly unharmed by the flames, while clothes made from its
skins were believed to be incombustible. More plausibly, X’s were said
to be intensely poisonous.
• Despite this, X brandy, a drink prepared by dunking live X’s in
fermenting fruit juices, is reputed to
have hallucinogenic and aphrodisiac properties. The X's ability to
regenerate lost body parts is being investigated and research is
ongoing into any applications this may have for human medicine.
• ID X

20. SAFETY SLIDE

21. Salamander

22. Q3) +60/-30
• ______ is a highly configurable text-based web browser for use on
cursor-addressable character cell terminals. As of 2017, it is the oldest
web browser currently in general use and development, having
started in 1992.

23. SAFETY SLIDE

24. Lynx

25. Q4) +40/-20
• While companies with an unrealised value of over a billion dollars are
called Unicorns, companies with a realised outcome of over a billion
dollars are called X.
• X’s are called the unicorns of the sea, and possess a large “tusk” from
a protruding canine tooth
• ID X

26. SAFETY SLIDE

27. Narwhal

28. Q5) +20/-10
• X’s are heavily built animals with a bulky frame, sturdy legs, and
rounded cloven hooves, and extremely dense, long fur that hangs
down lower than the belly.
• It is found throughout the Himalayan region of southern central Asia,
and the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia
• ID the animal

29. SAFETY SLIDE

30. Yak

31. Q6) +10/-5
• The name X comes from the Malay word “Pengguling” which means
something that rolls up.
• They emit a noxious acid like skunks, and are the only mammals in the
world covered in scales.
• ID X

32. SAFETY SLIDE

33. Pangolin

34. SAFETY SLIDE

35. LONG CONNECT: Animals part of Ubuntu
Version names.

36. ROUND 3: Anticlockwise
Dries
Infinite Bounce, Pounce
+10/-10 on the pounce
+10 on the bounce

37. Q1)
• What has been blanked out?

38. Mark Zuckerberg’s Jarvis AI

39. Q2)
• Rayouf Alhumedhi is a 15 year old girl from Germany who
campaigned for something, after realizing that there was no _____ to
represent her.
• She made her announcement on Reddit first, and was supported by
the reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Her request was approved by
Unicode in November 2016.
• What did she help create ?

40. Hijab Emoji

41. Q3)
• The traffic stats for video game consoles used to visit a particular
website is shown. Which website ?

43. Q4) ID X
The term X is derived from a 1970 sketch of the BBC television comedy
series Monty Python's Flying Circus. The sketch is set in a cafe where
nearly every item on the menu includes X canned luncheon meat.
The excessive amount of X mentioned in the dialogues references the
abundance of it and other imported canned meat products in the
United Kingdom after World War II, as the country struggled to rebuild
its agricultural base. X captured a large slice of the British market within
the lower classes, and became a byword among British children of the
1960s for low-grade fodder due to its commonality, monotonous taste
and low price, leading to the humour of the Python sketch

44. Spam

45. Q5)
• Large number of Burmese Pythons have been set loose in the Florida
Everglades, where they have reproduced extensively and are now an
invasive species
• To tackle this problem, researchers have begun to telemeter some of
them, which in turn lead them to others, which are then captured and
euthanized.
• The telemetered snakes are informally (and aptly) called “____
snakes”
• FITB

46. Judas Snakes

47. Q6)
• This is a German non-profit organisation. It describes itself as “one of
the many answers to the media crisis”
• Recently, a tech giant said that it would use the organisation to roll
out a new feature in its product.
• Name the tech giant ? What feature ?
• (Picture on the next slide)

49. Facebook
“Fake news” filtering/ fact checking